A correspondent in Notes and Queries (March 5th, 1892) suggests as the fons et origo of this word the Italian Uomo bugiardo, a lying man. To hum used to signify “to applaud,” “to pretend…
(London). Stow says, “One William Lamb, citizen and clothworker, born at Sutton Valence, Kent, did found near unto Oldbourne a faire conduit and standard; from this conduit, water clear as…
In the Greek and Roman Church the thumb and first two fingers represent the Trinity. The thumb, being strong, represents the Father; the long or second finger, Jesus Christ; and the first…
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Director:Charles MatthauWriters:Stirling Silliphant and Kirk EllisDirector of Photography:John A. AlonzoEditors:Sidney Levin and Tim O'MearaMusic:Patrick WilliamsProduction Designer:Paul…
(3 syl.). A horseman; whence a knight, a gentleman. (Latin, caballus, a horse.) The Cavalier. Eon de Beaumont, the French soldier; Chevalier d'Eon. (1728-1810.) Charles Breydel, the…
To eat humble pie. (See Humble Pie.) To eat one out of house and home. To eat so much that one will have to part with house and home in order to pay for it. To eat one's words. To…
A corruption of a concocted and bully story. The catch-pennies hawked about the streets are still called cocks- i.e. concocted things. Bully is the Danish bullen (exaggerated), our bull-…
the beloved daughter of a noble lord, accompanied her father and mother on a chase one day, when her step-mother requested her to return and tell the master-cook to prepare “the milk-white…
